Internal review · Frontier Consultancy

Building AI-first delivery partners.

Internal review of partner workshop content. Microsoft and named reviewers only. The decks, storyboards, and exercises here are still being shaped, and your eyes on them are part of how they get sharper before they go partner-facing.

Why this exists

Partner delivery is changing fast.

Agents and MCP-connected tools are starting to handle the parts of delivery that used to eat consultant hours: backlog grooming, scaffolding, infrastructure, test, the admin around every project.

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Agents and MCP-connected tools are starting to handle the parts of delivery that used to eat consultant hours: backlog grooming, scaffolding, infrastructure, test, the admin around every project. The business case is already solid. Customer expectations will follow. The partners building this motion now have a real window to differentiate, and in a year or two, AI-first delivery becomes the baseline.

And the motion doesn't stop at hand-off. Build AND operate. The same agent fleet that builds a customer platform can stay on to run it. That opens a hybrid revenue model for partners: project revenue on the build, recurring revenue on the operating layer, same toolstack doing both.

Frontier Consultancy is the motion that helps partners get there. Today it runs across two tracks: Cloud and AI Platform, and AI Business Solutions for Dynamics partners. More in the pipeline. Each track walks partners through what AI-first delivery looks like in their space, the delivery paths their teams can adopt, and hands-on exercises where they design reusable agents they can put to work on real projects.

Everyone leaves with a curated set of skills, agents, and MCP servers ready to install in their own toolstack: Copilot CLI, VS Code, whatever they use. The change doesn't end when the workshop does. The intent is simple. Give partners the knowledge and the tools to start delivering this way, on real projects, the week after.

Tracks

Three tracks. Each self-contained.

Pick the one that matches your role. The deck runs live. The exercise material clones to your machine. You keep the work after the session.

Live

Cloud and AI Platform

CAIP. Azure / Cloud and AI Platform partners

Build AI-first delivery muscle on Azure. Deck, exercise scenario, three setup tiers, FAQ. Owner: Johan Wallquist.

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Live

AI Business Solutions

AIBS. Dynamics partners

AI-first delivery for Dynamics 365 partners. Pilot deliveries running with EMEA partners. Co-owners: Giel Cuijpers, Marvin Heilemann.

Watch deck Material
Future

Security

Track in scoping

Security track is being shaped now. Audience, scenario, and exercise scope in design. Ping Johan if you want to weigh in.

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Cross-track

Partner one-pager.

Two-minute overview of Frontier. All three tracks, partner outcomes, the engagement model, who to contact. Standalone page for sharing in a link, or a single-page PDF for email and print.

Partner-facing

Frontier Consultancy · one-pager

Partners. Prospective track leads. Internal Microsoft.

The fastest way to put Frontier on someone's radar. Same content in two formats. Co-owners: Johan, Giel, Marvin, Madalina.

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Cross-track

Manager brief.

A short narrative that frames Frontier across all three tracks. Originally built as the C-level executive briefing, now reframed for partner-team managers. Three versions live, one card. Pick the length that fits the conversation.

Internal review

Frontier Consultancy · Manager brief

Partner-team managers. Partner leadership. Internal Microsoft.

Manager brief is 16 slides (8 main + 8 bonus), built for a 15-minute slot that can stretch to 30. Executive brief is the same 8 main slides on their own, sized for a C-suite conversation. v1 is the original Marvin and Giel draft, kept here for lineage. Co-owners: Giel, Marvin, Johan. See EDIT-GUIDE.md in the private repo for how to edit.

Manager brief (16 slides) Executive brief (8 slides) v1 draft (FYI)
Concept · for review

Select your toolbox starter pack.

A partner-facing service for assembling Copilot CLI capabilities. Pick the skills, agents, and MCP servers that fit your role. Check out. Walk away with a real script you can run. Showing it now to get input on shape and content before we figure out how we would offer this.

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Copilot CLI Starter Pack · v0.1

Partner enablement. Self-service toolbox. Discussion piece for the team.

Browse capabilities across Cloud & AI Platforms, AI Business Solutions, and Security. Filter the catalog by phase or by who maintains the item. Start from a curated preset, edit, check out. Download produces a real Setup.ps1 with the manifest embedded and install snippets you can run today. Save your selection and copy a URL that rehydrates the cart for whoever opens it. The hosted install endpoint is not live yet. The flow and the catalog are what we are reviewing.

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Get the material

Clone the repo. Keep the material.

Setup guides, exercise scenarios, deliverable templates, FAQ. Cloned to your machine, yours after the session.

Clone or download

Clone for the full repo. Or hit the green Code button on GitHub for a zip.

git clone https://github.com/JW-Sthlm/frontier-consultancy-public.git
Track leads

Reach the EMEA team.

Partner Solution Architects behind Frontier. Send a partner name, a question, or a hand raised to join. Direct mail works.

For facilitators

Run-of-show, debrief structure, and internal critique live in the private source repo. Sign in with your collaborator account and clone:

git clone https://github.com/JW-Sthlm/frontier-consultancy.git
  • AIBS deck source: tracks/aibs/presentation/index-structured.html
  • Internal notes: tracks/<track>/_internal/
  • Owners: Johan (CAIP), Giel and Marvin (AIBS)

What's not here

Storyboards, internal critiques, draft variants, snapshot history, and research-in-flight live in the private source repo. Microsoft collaborators who need access can ping Johan. The partner-facing umbrella and per-track participant pages are linked from the workshop invite, not from this page.